Community-Based Integrated Child Protection Model for Intervention to Reduce Child Marriage Cases

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10.2991/978-2-38476-317-7_213How to use a DOI?

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PATBM; child marriage; community based

Abstract

Marriage between women and girls is a serious problem because it has a negative impact on both the mother and the child being born, including complications of pregnancy and childbirth, miscarriage, stillbirth, high fertility, morbidity, infant death, greater risk of stunting, thinness and underweight, and LBW. Even though a revision of the Marriage Law has been issued which limits the minimum age for marriage to 19 years, the prevalence of child marriage (less than 19 years) is still very high every year and tends to remain constant. Grobogan Regency always occupies the top ranking in Central Java. The prevalence in 2019 was 51.24%, in 2020 (52.81%), in 2021 (54.33%), and in 2022 (52.15%). Child marriage is a social phenomenon that occurs from generation to generation with multidimensional causes, teenagers and parents are the main actors, and social culture is a reinforcing factor. Therefore, an intervention model is urgently needed to reduce the prevalence of child marriage cases.

This research isstudyquasi experimentwith pretest-posttest control group design. The population of this study were all teenagers aged 13–18 years and their parents in the Sedayu village and Lebak village areas. The treatment group applied the PATBM intervention model, the control group applied the intervention model that had been running so far. Interventions carried out for 4 months. Data analysis using a comparative test to determine differences in the level of knowledge and attitudes of the community (adolescents and their parents) towards maturing marriage age.

The research results show that the implementation of the Community-Based Integrated Child Protection (PATBM) model through the formation and empowerment of Village Level Child Care Groups (KPA-TD) has also succeeded in increasing the knowledge of teenagers and parents regarding child marriage and its impacts. The PATBM model has also succeeded in increasing or changing the attitudes of the parental community towards the maturing age of marriage.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Muhammad Azinar
AU  - Bertakalswa Hermawati
AU  - Puput Ediyarsari
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/02/13
TI  - Community-Based Integrated Child Protection Model for Intervention to Reduce Child Marriage Cases
BT  - Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Arts and Humanities 2024 (IJCAH 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 2415
EP  - 2428
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-317-7_213
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-317-7_213
ID  - Azinar2025
ER  -